I've been interested in creating a new crash sound, as I'm kinda over the original. I just have no idea where to find or even how to go about doing it. I have the sound file I want to replace it with ready, that's as far as I've gotten. Thanks in advance for any help. UPDATE: Used Agent Ransack to find the file I was looking for, located at BeamNG.DRIVE\gameengine(ZIP)\art/sound\crash.ogg. I tried replacing that file with mine (Yes, mine was converted to mono and OGG) but that resulted in no crash sound in game. FIX: For my custom sound to work, instead of replacing it, I just edited the original in Wavpad and pretty much just pasted my sound over it and saved. Here's what it sounds like in game:
Your sound will need to be converted to mono. I don't remember the correct format right now, maybe WAV or OGM? I'll check when I can, but maybe someone else will chime in before then. The crash sound is played by a LUA script which determines when the threshold is met. The LUA stuff all lives in the game's install directory (which is in steamapps/common/). Offhand I'm not sure where the crash sound itself lives - it won't be in the LUA folder but it will be in the game's directory somewhere. You can comfortably edit the LUA files using Notepad++ and you can search for text in the entire directory using Agent Ransack. Agent Ransack will also peak inside zips for you while searching - so in the likely event that the sound file is inside a zip, Agent Ransack will still help you find it. Is your goal to extend the game by having multiple crash sounds, or simply replace the original?
It's OGG. And note that BeamNG supports mods that overwrite (i believe) any part of the game so you can make a mod that installs as a ZIP in the mods folder if you set up the internal zip folder structure the same
Alright, I'll have a browse and see what I can come up with. I'm only looking into replacing the original. Once I understand it more, I'll see about adding multiple, but for now, that's out of the question. Forgive me if this sounds ignorant, but do I need a particular program to convert the sound to mono?
Only Lua for individual vehicles is contained in zips, the global vehicle Lua isn't. And Windows has native support for searching for text inside files, including those in zip files.
That's a good point Scepheo; I'm sure that I would have known about the native support for searching text files inside zips, but I must have forgotten. Agent Ransack is much faster and displays a grep-like output - I personally find it preferable. It's one of those tools you don't know you need until you try it - it seems totally superfluous until that point. As far as searching for text inside a folder full of .lua files, the native Windows 7 functionality does not do that out of the box (at least in an un-indexed location). @JFoxx97 - you can use Audacity for that if you'd like. The .lua file in question is "beamstate.lua". The sound file in question is "gameengine.zip\art\sound\crash.ogg". If you package your sound like the attached example (which uses a fake, non-working, sound for crash.ogg that will cause errors when you crash!) and place it in the /mods/ folder it will replace the stock crash sound. EDIT: finally, be sure that you save your mono sound file as an .ogg
